Intel SRCU31A - Server RAID U3-1A Controller User Manual page 97

Swap Host Drives:
When a PCI computer is switched on, the host drives are initialized in the order of the host drive
list, which means that the operating system is booted from the host drive with the lowest number.
For reasons of flexibility, a host drive's position in the list can be changed. However, the position
of the host drive from which the operating system is booted and the position of the host drive from
which StorCon (disk version) was started (both can be the same), cannot be changed. If you wish
to change the position of these drives, you have to boot the operating system and StorCon from a
floppy disk or use StorCon from the Flash-RAM of the Intel RAID Controller SRCU31. To change
the position of a host drive in the host drive list, highlight the host drive and confirm with <Enter>.
Then, type in the new position and press <Enter>.
Remove Host Drives:
Removing a host drive results in the loss of all data. All data will be lost after removal. If you
remove a host drive belonging to an array drive for which several host drives exist (after capacity
expansion, or after splitting), all other host drives will also be removed.
Split Host Drive:
For some purposes you might need to split an existing host drive into two or several host drives, in
which case each host drive looks like a single hard disk drive to the operating system. Since the
new host drives have smaller capacities, StorCon has to write new header information on the host
drives. All data will be lost from the original host drive.
The Split Host Drive menu is only available if StorCon is loaded with <Ctrl> + <G> from the Intel
RAID Controller SRCU31's Flash-RAM.
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